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Day Two
Speakers Shelley Stewart, Jr.
Prior to joining Tyco, Mr. Stewart was Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Management at Invensys plc, headquartered in London. In this position, Mr. Stewart provided leadership for the strategic sourcing as well as having overall responsibility for lean operational excellence. Before Invensys, he was Vice President of Supply Chain Management with the Raytheon Company, joining them after 18 years with United Technologies Corporation, where he held numerous senior level supply chain and operational positions. Mr. Stewart is Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), the visiting Board of Directors at Howard University’s School of Business and Howard’s Supply Chain Advisory Board. He is also a member of Purchasing Magazine’s Editorial Advisory Board and the Northeastern University Corporation. Locally, he is an active participant of the Board of Directors for The Boys and Girls Club of Trenton/Mercer County. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of New Haven and both a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree of Science in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University. Mr. Stewart is a co-author of Straight To The BottomLine: An Executive’s Roadmap to World Class Supply Management (J.Ross Publishing).
George F. Brown, Jr. brings to his clients extensive experience and unique perspectives about growth strategy in business-to-business markets. In recent years, he has helped clients develop and implement strategies to achieve global market presence and reach decisions relating to segmentation strategies, pricing, channel management, and major customer relationship management. Work for these clients and other recent research has resulted in a number of publications and presentations on business-to-business strategy and related topics, including Best-in-Class Behaviors in Business-to-Business Relationships, Supplier-Driven and Channel-Driven Business Models, Business-to-Business Economics, A Blueprint for Success with Suppliers, and Five Growth Lessons. During the past ten years, Mr. Brown has directed numerous projects for industry-leading Fortune 500 clients served by Blue Canyon Partners, Inc. He has helped to develop services strategies for an automotive industry client, customer-driven approaches to new product development within the high technology industry, a behavioral approach to market segmentation for a client in the health care industry, and innovation-based opportunities to achieve competitive advantage within equipment markets. Work done with one global client organization has resulted in their development of a new process through which they have been able to identify and implement new approaches to value creation that has yielded stronger customer relationships and improved margins. This process has been implemented within that organization in numerous divisions, including segments in fast-paced high technology industries, businesses selling mature products into well-established markets, and start-up companies in emerging markets with unique characteristics in terms of customers and competitors. The work done by this project team has also enabled this customer to define and implement new approaches to respond to competitive challenges. Another customer relationship has focused on the development of channel strategy and channel management plans. The Blue Canyon team working with this customer developed a new strategic framework for decisions about channel strategy and relationships, and translated that strategy into action plans along dimensions ranging from authorizations to rewards to business systems. This effort also enabled the client to understand the potential to make acquisitions which took advantage of the company’s channel strategies and yielded advantages for customers that resulted in rewards for shareholders. Mr. Brown’s background includes executive positions within the consulting industry and a variety of research and academic positions. He has held the senior executive position in two major consulting and information services companies, as president of the ICF Kaiser Consulting Group in Fairfax, VA and as executive vice president of DRI/McGraw-Hill in Lexington, MA. Mr. Brown has published extensively in a variety of business and academic journals, spoken at numerous conferences and professional meetings, testified before Congress on many occasions, and provided expert testimony in a variety of settings on cases involving antitrust, employment law, pricing practices, and other topics. His work in the field of defense economics has been frequently cited in the press as well as used by clients in that industry. Earlier in his career, Mr. Brown served as the Theodore Roosevelt Professor of Economics at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI, and has taught and lectured at several other major universities. He held several senior research positions with the Center for Naval Analysis of the University of Rochester and has consulted with organizations such as J.D. Power and Associates, Baker & Company, Monitor, Princeton Economic Research, Inc., and a variety of law firms, service organizations, government agencies, and businesses. Mr. Brown earned a B.S. in Administration and Management Science, an M.S. in Industrial Administration, and a Ph.D. in Economics, all from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, where he was awarded the Alexander Henderson Award in Economic Theory.
John Davies heads up research efforts for Greener World Media and leads the GreenBiz Executive Network, a member-based, peer-to-peer learning forum for sustainability professionals. The network is made up of senior executives from $1B+ corporations working together to share best practices and lessons learned for implementing sustainable development programs. Mr. Davies is an experienced entrepreneur and innovator who has applied his business and management skills to launching start-ups as well as improving the operations of existing businesses. He is a frequent keynote speaker at international events, is well-known for his supply chain and sustainability expertise and is the author of numerous articles in business, industry, and educational publications.
Tony Taccone has 20 years of strategy consulting experience, mostly in the steel industry. He works with senior management teams, chief executive officers, and boards of directors to improve business performance through the development and implementation of competitive strategy, both at the business unit and corporate level. Although his client base is predominately North American, he has worked with companies in Europe, South America and Asia. In addition to working with senior managers of operating companies, Mr. Taccone has acted as a strategic advisor to private equity funds, hedge funds, unions, and governments. Prior to becoming a founding partner in First River Consulting, Mr. Taccone worked with Beddows & Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., as a Principal Consultant, Co-Manager of the Pittsburgh Office and Member of the Board of Directors. Prior to that he was the International Economist for Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh. Mr. Taccone holds a B.A. in Economics from Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, Pa. and an M.A. in Economics from Duke University, Durham, N.C. A noted steel industry expert, Mr. Taccone has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, and has appeared on CNBC.
Jim Lawton helped drive D&B’s acquisition of Open Ratings. At Open Ratings, Lawton helped drive rapid growth, leading it to become the market-leading provider of supply intelligence. Prior to joining Open Ratings, Mr. Lawton was vice president of marketing for Optiant, where he positioned the company as the leader of a high-growth market for supply chain optimization solutions. During his tenure, the company launched five products and dramatically expanded its customer base, resulting in 300 percent annual growth. Mr. Lawton’s ability to launch innovative manufacturing solutions into commercially viable businesses stems from his experience as a supply chain executive at Hewlett-Packard. There, he led an initiative that rapidly achieved profitability, saving millions of dollars through the reduction of inventory and reorganized supply chain operations. An inaugural fellow of MIT's prestigious Leaders for Manufacturing program, Lawton is a frequent speaker at industry conferences including Supply Chain World, National Manufacturing Week, ISM’s annual conference, and Oracle OpenWorld.
Patricia Mohr is Vice-President, Economics, at Scotiabank’s Executive Offices in Toronto. Ms. Mohr is responsible for commodity market research in Scotia Economics and works closely with Scotia Capital’s Corporate and Investment Banking groups—including the Mining and Oil & Gas teams—with ScotiaMocatta and with Global Risk Management. Scotia Capital is among the top three corporate mining banks in North America (No. 1 in Canada) and is a leading provider to the mining and oil & gas industries internationally, with extensive offices throughout China, the Far East and Latin America (Chile, Peru and Mexico). ScotiaMocatta is the world’s top physical trader of precious metals, has recently become a member of the Shanghai Gold Exchange and participates in the London Gold and Silver Fixes. ScotiaWaterous is a leading global M&A advisory firm in the energy sector. Ms. Mohr developed the Scotiabank Commodity Price Index—the first Index designed to measure price trends for Canadian commodities in export markets. She maintains a close interest in national and international economic & financial market developments. Ms. Mohr holds an Honours B.A. Degree and a Masters Degree in Economics from The University of British Columbia and originally comes from Vancouver. Prior to joining Scotiabank, Ms. Mohr spent a number of years with Alberta Energy Co. Ltd. (now EnCana Corp.) in Calgary and with CP Ships and Canadian Pacific Bermuda in London, England as Corporate Economist. She began her career with Natural Resources Canada in Ottawa.
Lisa Reisman has over 16 years of experience in management consulting and metals based strategic sourcing. She is currently a co-owner of the metals-based sourcing firm Aptium Global Inc. and Editor of the award-winning blog, MetalMiner ™ www.agmetalminer.com that provides sourcing and trading intelligence for global metals markets. In addition to past roles at Andersen and Deloitte Consulting, Ms. Reisman has also owned and operated her own metals trading company, sourcing and selling a full range of metal products from and to emerging markets. Her industry clients span multiple industry sectors. She has worked in the aerospace and defense, trucking and shipbuilding industries as a trader and in the high tech, automotive, mining, cable, earthmoving equipment, industrial and building products sectors as a consultant. Ms. Reisman earned her MPA from New York University, where she received a Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Administration Fellowship. She also holds a BA in political science and journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lisa is INCOTERM certified and holds a Six Sigma Black Belt. Her opinions have been quoted in numerous mainstream and industry magazines such as The Christian Science Monitor, Business Credit Magazine, Darwin Magazine, The Industry Standard, GlobalAutoIndustry and Automotive Industry Action Guide among others. She has authored columns on Lean Sourcing in tight commodity markets for Modern Plastics Worldwide. Ms. Reisman currently serves as Editor-at-Large of Surplus Record, an industrial publication with a circulation of 75,000. She is married to fellow blogger, Jason Busch, author of the very popular sourcing site, SpendMatters. They live in Chicago with their two sons.
With over 20 years of marketing and management experience, Ed Crowley is a leading thinker in product development, strategic marketing, and the Managed Print Services market. Since founding the Photizo Group, a consulting and research firm that assists in developing growth strategies, in 2006, he has successfully worked with OEMs and industry suppliers to develop winning, sustainable competitive strategies. Within a few short years Mr. Crowley has developed a list of blue chip clients including six of the top eight printer, copier, and MFP companies, while establishing the Photizo Group as the preeminent experts in the Managed Print Services market. Mr. Crowley’s hard work has produced remarkable success and he has shared his knowledge and experience at speaking events from Barcelona to New York City and everywhere in between. Before the Photizo Group, Mr. Crowley was the Senior Manager in World Printer Marketing at Lexmark International. While at Lexmark, he led the team, which defined and executed product strategy for the market segment representing over $2B (US) in revenues for Lexmark, and which accounts for over 40 percent of total Lexmark profits. Mr. Crowley managed the business printer new product portfolio, global product launch, and product strategy definition. He championed his team to drive growth in the market, implemented product definition process, and grew segment sales by over 25 percent. Mr. Crowley also made significant advances as International Market Development Manager at VTEL Corporation, Managing Director at IntelliQuest, Senior Product Manager at Texas Instruments printer group (now part of Tally Genimicom), Product Manager at DataProducts (Now part of Ricoh), and a market analyst at QMS (now part of Konica Minolta). A Professor of Marketing and Economics at Midway College, he is a successful educator with experience in both teaching and developing original course content for business planning and entrepreneurship. Mr. Crowley’s publications include the Intelligence Briefing, a market intelligence magazine, a feature column called, The Hot Roll in the On Demand Journal, and a quarterly column in Vision Magazine, the official magazine of PDMA. His other works have appeared in ProductMarketing.Com Magazine, Quirk’s Marketing Research Review, Journal of Professional Services Marketing and the Journal of Product and Brand Management. In 2008 Mr. Crowley received an award from the Product Development and Management Association for the best article of the year in Visions Magazine. Mr. Crowley has an undergraduate degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Missouri and an MBA from Mary Harbin-Baylor University.
Jim Haughey is Chief Economist at Reed Construction Data (RCD), a Reed Elsevier Company. RCD provides the construction industry with detailed construction project and cost information. Mr. Haughey has over thirty years experience as a business economist, including twenty years monitoring the construction market. He has previously worked in government, corporate and consulting roles and has taught at the University of Michigan, Ohio University, Michigan State University and the University of Massachusetts. Mr. Haughey has a Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Michigan. He prepares detailed construction market forecasts that appear in many Reed construction magazines, including Building Design & Construction, Professional Builder and Construction Equipment and online at reedconstructiondata.com/market-insights. He is a frequent speaker on the construction outlook at events sponsored by trade associations, trade unions and construction suppliers.
Charles Wardlaw joined BP in January 2009 as Vice President of Procurement for Global Manufacturing. He leads a team of procurement and supply chain professionals that supports 18 refineries and chemical plants around the world. He is based outside of Chicago in Naperville, Ill. Prior to joining BP, Mr. Wardlaw led supply chain and procurement organizations for Arkema Inc., Hercules, Tyco Fire & Security, DuPont Dow Elastomers and DuPont. He started as a research engineer for DuPont and progressed through operations, planning, R&D, IT, sales and marketing assignments in a variety of businesses, including coatings, fabricated products, polymers, sporting goods and elastomers. Mr. Wardlaw holds bachelors and masters degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and Imperial College–London, respectively. He has an MBA in Finance and International Business from the Fox School of Business, Temple University. He’s a member of the Manufacturers’ Alliance Purchasing Council and ISM, and has served on the Conference Board’s Purchasing and Supply Leadership Council.
Patrick Houston is a partner in the operations practice of Booz & Company, a premier global management consulting company, based in New York. He has over 14 years of experience focused on supply chain and sourcing issues primarily in the consumer and media industries. His expertise lies in driving strategic operational and organizational change in creating essential advantage for his clients. Mr. Houston received a dual master's degree, with distinction, from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management (MBA) and the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Masters in Manufacturing Management). He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical Engineering, summa cum laude, from the University of Southern California. He has co-authored several industry-related publications, most recently a Booz & Company reader, Sourcing Reloaded (Targeting Procurement’s New Strategic Agenda), Fourth Quarter, 2008. Back to top.
Mr. Johnson began his career at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC, where he served for eight years doing both nonfinancial and financial analysis. His duties also included drafting speeches and testimony for former Fed Chairman Paul Volker. Mr. Johnson is a member of the National Association of Business Economists and the American Economic Association. Currently he is on the American Bankers Association Economic Advisory Committee. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University. Back to top.
Scott Singer Global Head of Procurement, Rio Tinto
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Shelley Stewart, Jr. leads Tyco’s six sigma, lean manufacturing, information technology, working capital, real estate and supply chain initiatives across the company. He is responsible for $13 billion dollars in procurement spend, $500 million in IT costs, and leads cross divisional teams in an effort to reduce cost and increase efficiency throughout Tyco.
Tony Taccone
Patricia M. Mohr
Lisa Reisman
Ed Crowley
Jim Haughey
Charles H. Wardlaw
Patrick Houston
Dana Johnson leads the bank’s economics department and provides commentary and research vital to Comerica and its customers. Mr. Johnson came to Comerica from Bank One in Chicago where he served as managing director and head of research for Banc One Capital Markets. During his 18 years with Bank One, he was the chief economist for capital markets and was responsible for building the economics, foreign exchange, and fixed income research teams.
Carlton B. Adams is Director of Service Parts Purchasing with responsibility for global spend management of aftermarket and remanufactured parts for the enterprise. Leading a global, matrix team of professionals, Mr. Adam’s team delivers significant bottom line savings to the corporation while developing long term, collaborative relationships with key suppliers. Additionally, he has responsibility for Business Process Outsourcing of Caterpillar’s transactional purchasing functions. In this role, Carlton’s team has set the standard for BPO at Caterpillar.
Scott Singer is the Global Head of Procurement for Rio Tinto. He is responsible for implementing sourcing strategies and executing supply agreements for the Rio Tinto Group businesses. In addition he leads a shared services team supporting all buying, inbound logistics and warehouse management operations. He is supported by a team of over 1400 people based at Rio Tinto sites across the world and regional office hubs on five continents. He is based in Brisbane, Australia.